For the first time in over 25 years, the UCLA basketball team has reached back-to-back Elite Eights, but in order to once again travel to the final four, there is the tall task of beating what Ben Howland has called "the hottest team in college basketball," as the Bruins take on Kansas on Saturday afternoon for the right to go to Atlanta.

As Howland astutely pointed out following his teams' regional semifinal win over Pitt on Thursday night, the Jayhawks have the best personnel in the country.